Dear All, As Mr Singh rightly pointed out, the problem lies certainly somewhere else. If good books are there in libraries, users will certainly visit and use the library even without much promotion. The best seller book The Google Story - a must read for librarians- will tell you that a useful product - like Google - needed no advertisement at all. This lesson is applicable to libraries too.Good library collection will get readers, if other enabling factors are there at work. So the need is to create an enabling factor. Developing a useful collection is not an easy task. It requires a lot of work, in finding out, choosing the right one, assigning priority in purchase and all that. It lead us again to the discussion on librarians role in building book collection, which we had discussed a bit as per Dr Saheb's query.Unless we become good designers of libraries in many aspects including book collection, we cannot make it useful. This topic requires further discussion, it seems. Regards, K Rajasekharan Librarian, Kerala Institute of Local Administration(KILA) Mulagunnathukavu, Thrissur - 680581 , India Email rajankila@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Original Message: Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:05:17 +0530 From: "Sukhdev Singh" Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Promoting reading habits To: "Parinita Samant" Cc: lis-forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in, binu david Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 But aren't we trying to reinvent the Wheel? Let us go back to our science. Read and Understand the Second Law: Better Buy a Copy and keep it on your table. I don't have to tell you the title. http://dlist.sir.arizona.edu/1220/ Also remember the Second Law comes Before Third Law. The problem lies somewhere else. Poor students!! Always at receiving end!!. One question? Who told them to read SMSes? Second Question? Who told them to Google? Answer = IF SOMETHING IS USEFUL, IT WILL BE USED!! So if the Library collection is useful, it will be used. Put your useful books in Seven Locks, people will still ask for it. Don't you observe it daily in your library? Sorry, the problem lies somewhere else. Do you still want to know the problem? --Sukhdev Singh, NIC. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.